waking in the night 2 year old demanding milk... help me- suggestions welcome!

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Okay Noah was two last week and he sleeps lots in the day but he seems to need it. He has been very poorly for the last year really and on an allergy medicine daily like piriton for his severe croup he gets from time to time and also he has just finished two two week courses of antibitics due to tonsilitas and severe ear infections.

The question is I know I should not give him a bottle at bed should I but he demands in. I bath and then story and talk and then bottle and he will go down to sleep about seven and then wakes up three or four times shouting bottle- milk lol. I do try and ignore but he starts scrreaming and with another baby in the house get him it. He is a very poor eater too not like the rest of them but think he is feeling full from his milk intake what do you think?

Last night he catually slept through from seven to seven i heard him wimper but ignored him and he went back to sleep.

How do get rid of the bottle..he only has it at and drinks from a\proper cup during day with no lid.

regards Nicola

I guess the first question is do you think he's genuinely thirsty. If so why don't you leave a bottle (or better a closed cup with a straw that won't leak) on a shelf or table next to his cot/bed so he can reach it in the night. If you think he needs the calories fill it with milk, if you think he doesn't give him water.
If you think its just habit just ignore him and don't go in. After about a week he'll just stop asking - one week of disruption for a life time of sleeping through.
Good luck

Give him a lidded cup with water that he can help himself to whenever he wants? My DS also had a bottle of milk at bedtime at this age, though none during the night. He was reluctant to stop using it, but we had a long conversation about baby bottles vs "big boy" cups and he agreed to come shopping and choose his own milk cup. Which he still drinks from every night two years later.
In hindsight I don't think drinking from a bottle once a day is such a huge issue - at the time I was embarrassed because we went away with friends whose children were similar ages and my DS was the only one who still had a bottle at night.
I'd be inclined to agree that he's unlikely to have massive appetite for food if he's drinking tonnes of milk at night, and think you just have to bite the bullet and be strict about only giving him water. I know the first few nights it's difficult, but really accepting "demands" from a two year old is creating a rod for your own back in the longer term.
Hope this helps!